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Nancy Lee and Rakan Aboneaaj :MDBs to the Rescue? The Evidence on COVID-19 ResponseThe world is now more than a year into the second global crisis of the century. Both the current pandemic and the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) more than 10 years ago tested the capacity of international financial institutions to respond with speed and scale. |
Fri, May 21, 2021 | Center for Global Development![]() |
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Jeffrey J. Schott:How US Trade Policy Can Support Climate Change GoalsResponding to President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s charge to Cabinet members to contribute to the effort to decarbonize the US economy, US Trade Representative Katherine Tai has put forward useful proposals on how trade policy can support solutions to global warming. |
Thu, May 20, 2021 | Peterson Institute for International Economics![]() |
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Scott Morris:Testimony on China’s Lending Practices and the International Debt ArchitectureOn May 18, 2021, CGD Senior Fellow Scott Morris testified before the House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on National Security, International Development and Monetary Policy at a hearing on “Examining Belt and Road: The Lending Practices of the People’s Republic of China and Impact on the International Debt Architecture.” |
Tue, May 18, 2021 | Center for Global Development![]() |
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Kevin P. Gallagher, Haihong Gao, Edwin Truman, and others:Building Back a Better Financial Safety NetThe year 2021 is year two into the most important decade of the century where drastic reductions in carbon dioxide emissions and inequalities in a manner that raises standards of living is paramount to the survival of the world’s people and planet earth itself. |
Mon, Apr 5, 2021 | BU Global Development Policy Center![]() |
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William R. Rhodes:The Role of the IDB in the Time of COVIDThe IDB is the leading source of development financing in the region. Since September 2020, it is under new leadership, which has numerous challenges on its agenda, some of them associated with the pandemic that are without precedent. |
Tue, Apr 27, 2021 | Latin American Chamber of Commerce in Switzerland![]() |
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William C. Dudley:The Days of Low Treasury Yields Are NumberedThe 10-year U.S. Treasury note is part of the foundation of global finance. Its yield helps determine the cost of mortgages, the value of U.S. stocks and how much the U.S. government must pay to service its growing debt. |
Wed, May 12, 2021 | Bloomberg | Opinion![]() |
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Masood Ahmed:Low-Income Countries Need a Boost for the Recovery. Here's How the IMF Can Step UpMost observers gave the IMF high marks for its initial response to the COVID-19 crisis. It responded quickly with emergency financing to 86 countries, including a fivefold increase in its concessional lending to low-income countries (LICs). |
Mon, May 3, 2021 | Center for Global Development![]() |
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Jason Furman, Jacob J. Lew, Maria Demertzis, Marcel Fratzscher, Rana Foroohar:Comparing the US and EU Response to the COVID-19 Economic CrisisOn April 12, BWC member Jason Furman, Jacob J. Lew, Maria Demertzis, and Marcel Fratzscher joined Rana Foroohar to discuss the US-EU fiscal response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
Mon, Apr 12, 2021 | Atlantic Council![]() |
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Catherine L. Mann, Jonathan Goldberg, Inosi Nyatta and Edward Morse:The State of Energy FinanceOn April 21, BWC member Catherine L. Mann (Citigroup) joined Jonathan Goldberg (Carbon Direct), Inosi Nyatta (Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP), and Edward Morse (Citigroup, moderator) to explore various issues within the world of energy finance, including how the market is evolving, how to define "green finance", and additional relevant policy issues. |
Wed, Apr 21, 2021 | Our Energy Policy![]() |
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Lyric Hughes Hale and Paul Sheard:Hale Report Podcast with Paul SheardOur guest is the eminent economist Paul Sheard, Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center, an expert in both monetary policy and the Japanese economy. |
Fri, Apr 16, 2021 | Econvue![]() |